An official anniversary of the asleep was appear Thursday, and families, accompany and co-workers came advanced to allotment some of their stories:
NICHOLAS THALASINOS, 52
He articular as a Messianic Jew and foolishly committed Israel, actively debating about adoration in online forums and in person, his accompany said.
Only two weeks ago, Thalasinos, of Colton, was accepting a acrimonious on-the-job altercation about the attributes of Islam with Syed Rizwan Farook, his adolescent restaurant ambassador and one of the shooters.
Thalasinos' friend, Kuuleme Stephens, told The Associated Press that she happened to alarm him while he was animate with Farook and that he brought her into their debate, audibly declaring that Farook "doesn't accede that Islam is not a peaceful religion."
She heard Farook adverse that Americans don't accept Islam, and Thalasinos responded by saying, "I don't apperceive how to allocution with him," she said.
Thalasinos' wife, Jennifer, told the AP the two "probably did accept debates" but "I never got the consequence it was in a bad way."
"It was more, you know, just accepting discussions about adoration and faith," she said.
She said she believes her bedmate died a agonize because of his acceptance but he never adumbrated that Syed had radicalized. She said she did not accept her bedmate was alone targeted.
"They all got forth absolutely well. So it's shocking," she said.
AURORA BANALES GODOY, 26
Godoy was affiliated and the mother of an baby son, her aunt, Rebecca Godoy, said in Facebook column that affiliated to Godoy's own page.
"Yesterday in the shootings in San Bernardino abounding families were affected. Ours was one of them," Rebecca Godoy wrote. "We will accumulate her blaze animate so that her adolescent son does not overlook his appropriate mother."
Cindy Quinones, a accessory of Godoy's, said her bedmate was devastated by the afterlife of his wife.
"I feel like numb. It hasn't hit us yet. We're still aggravating to accomplish faculty of all this," Quinones said at a acuity captivated Thursday night in San Bernardino.
SIERRA CLAYBORN, 27
Her accompany say she stood out as anyone who consistently had an auspicious word.
Timothy J. Lee remembers affair Clayborn in a hip-hop chic at the University of California, Riverside. She was alive and outgoing, praising classmates if they baffled a routine.
"She consistently had something auspicious to say," Lee said.
After admission in 2010, Clayborn formed jobs in retail and at a coffer afore landing a position at the San Bernardino Canton Administering of Accessible Health. Like a amount of added victims, she inspected restaurants.
Matthew Peairs, 27, a administrator at Red Baron Pizza in Big Bear Lake, California, said Clayborn visited the restaurant a day afore the cutting to complete an inspection.
"She was one of the nicest bloom inspectors that we've anytime had," he said. "She talked to us like accustomed people, not just accomplishing her job."
He said they discussed their anniversary affairs and she mentioned she was traveling to the department's Christmas affair Wednesday.
"She was stoked about the party," Peairs said.
Word advance Wednesday a part of Clayborn's accompany that she was missing. FBI agents afterwards visited her family's abode to acquaint them that she was asleep in the attack.
"It's absolutely traveling to be altered afterwards her," Lee said
YVETTE VELASCO, 27
Velasco is accepting declared by her ancestors as smart, motivated and abounding of life.
In a statement, her ancestors said she was "loved by all who knew her."
"We are devastated about what happened and are still processing this nightmare," the ancestors said.
Velasco is survived by her parents and three sisters.
"Please adjure for our ancestors and the added families who accept absent a admired one as a aftereffect of this abhorrent tragedy," her ancestors wrote.
In the after-effects of the shooting, Velasco's ancestors searched everywhere for her. Mindy Velasco, her aunt, alleged hospitals, badge and alien centers in a agonizing seek for information, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"I'm fearing the worst," she told the paper. "She would absolutely be in acquaintance afterwards something like this."
Elizabeth Faron, a acquaintance of Velasco's from college, remembered her acquaintance as "amazing, actual sweet, affable and affectionate."
BENNETTA BETBADAL, 46
She was built-in in Iran in 1969 and came to the United States at age 18 to escape the animality of Christians afterwards the Iranian Revolution, according to a ancestors anniversary on a fundraising anniversary set up in her name.
Her cousin, Melani Betbadal, referred reporters to the anniversary and beneath added comment.
She aboriginal acclimatized in New York City but eventually confused to Rialto, California. She and her husband, a badge officer, were affiliated in 1997 and accept three accouchement ages 10, 12 and 15.
Betbadal accelerating from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona with a amount in allure and took a job as a bloom ambassador with San Bernardino County.
Her husband, Arlen Verdehyou, told The Daily Breeze that he and his wife exchanged texts at 8 a.m. Wednesday. He told her that he had aloof money from the coffer and would do some Christmas shopping. Betbadal had afresh busy the family's Christmas tree.
She was planning to accord a presentation at the anniversary anniversary affair Wednesday and was aflame about it, the ancestors said.
"It is the ultimate irony that her activity would be baseborn from her that day by what appears to be the aforementioned blazon of abandonment that she fled so abounding years ago," the ancestors said in the statement.
ROBERT ADAMS, 40
The Yucaipa resident, who formed as an ecology bloom specialist for the San Bernardino Canton Administering of Accessible Health, met his wife if they were teenagers and the two became top academy sweethearts afore eventually accepting married.
Before the tragedy, they were planning their 20-month-old daughter's aboriginal cruise to Disneyland next week.
"Our affliction fears were accepted today: our admired Robert will not be advancing home to us. He was a admiring son, brother, bedmate and amoroso to Savannah," his ancestors said in a anniversary Thursday.
Adams admired his job and advised his colleagues family, the anniversary said. His wife, Summer, aswell formed for the county.
A fundraising page for Summer and their babe has aloft added than $25,000.
Megan Neforos, who set up the page, said she knew Adams' wife through a Facebook accumulation for mothers of adolescent children.
"He was her top academy sweetheart. This is adverse for her," she said. "He was an abundantly admiring ancestor and adherent husband.
LARRY DANIEL KAUFMAN, 42
The Rialto resident, who went by Daniel, ran an apart endemic coffee boutique central the Inland Regional Center area the canton bloom workers were application a anteroom for their anniversary banquet. The shop's workers included humans with adorning disabilities, which can cover epilepsy, autism and bookish disabilities.
Eileen Richey, the controlling administrator of the Association of Regional Center Agencies, said his afterlife "fills us with sorrow, alive so abounding families are in mourning."
Kaufman was an ardent actor in the Original Renaissance Amusement Faire in Southern California anniversary spring, said acquaintance Katherine Panowicz, who had accepted him for 15 years.
She said he about alternate in parades, accustomed either a banderole on a carve or a acted horse. The fair association is devastated to lose a acquaintance with such a big smile, she said.
"It would change the absolute ambiance of a allowance just because he had a big ablaze smile," she said.
MICHAEL RAYMOND WETZEL, 37
Friends and adolescent abbey associates appealed for advice acknowledging his widow, Renee, a calm mom in Lake Arrowhead, California, and children.
"Michael was the a lot of amazing person," Renee Wetzel said in a statement, issued through her acquaintance Celia Behar. The brace had 5 accouchement from antecedent marriages and one adolescent together.
"He was my best acquaintance and an absurd ancestor who was admired by all. I accept never accepted a bigger person," the anniversary said. "He admired his plan and his ancestors so actual much. Afterwards him, this ancestors will never be the same. We acknowledge all the adulation and abutment that anybody is showing."
Behar runs a blog for mothers area Renee Wetzel frequently posted, and she angry there to ask for prayers anon afterwards acquirements that her husband, an ecology bloom supervisor, could accept been attacked.
"My bedmate was in a affair and a ballista came in. There are assorted humans dead/shot. I can't get a authority of him," she wrote.
After endure month's baleful shootings in Paris, she acquaint a vacation photo on Facebook, overlain by the colors of the French flag.
After her husband's afterlife was confirmed, she acquaint a Bible passage: "When my affection is afflicted advance me to the bedrock that is college than I."
The Lil' Mamas blog set up an online fundraiser for the Wetzel ancestors on Thursday and bound aloft tens of bags of dollars.
Church of the Woods aswell asked its associates to adjure for the continued family: "Please abide to adjure for Renee, his children, and his above wife Amy as they action this abhorrent tragedy and accident of their bedmate and father," the abbey said in a statement.
DAMIAN MEINS, 58
He was amorous about confined his community, a bulletin he took from the priests at his Catholic top academy in Riverside and agitated throughout his life.
Meins never absent far from his abbey or its teachings, said Walter Hackett, who met Meins some 40 years ago in top school.
"Service to others, allowance others. He actual abundant took that to heart," Hackett said.
Hackett alleged his acquaintance "a good, acceptable guy."
"Funny and acute and tall. A absolute quick smile, actual affable and outgoing," he said. "It's a absolute harder hit for all of us who knew him."
Meins affiliated his top academy sweetheart, now a Catholic academy principal, and they aloft two daughters, one a teacher. Meins was affectionately remembered as the guy who dressed up as Santa for academy pictures, according to a parent's amusing media announcement Thursday.
Meins' Facebook page, area he can be apparent animated with his ancestors in foreground of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, says he advised business administering at the University of Redlands starting in 1991. In 1979, he accelerating from UC Riverside. He was aswell retired from the Riverside Canton afterwards animate there for 28 years.
In accession to animate in the accessible bloom administering in San Bernardino, Meins was an continued affliction coordinator at St. Catherine of Alexandria Academy in Riverside, area he aswell helped kids actualize Christmas art projects and religious murals, Hackett said.
Meins accustomed a association accolade for his plan in Riverside, which was based on "compassion, courage, forgiveness, generosity, humility, inclusiveness, integrity, kindness, account and service."
A active Rosary for the Meins ancestors was captivated Thursday.
SHANNON JOHNSON, 45, of Los Angeles.
Johnson was the abandoned victim who lived in Los Angeles, a continued drive to San Bernardino Canton area he formed as a bloom inspector.
He rose afore aurora every morning to get to his job from his home in Koreatown, which he aggregate with his girlfriend, Mandy Pfifer, who was a longtime affiliate of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti's Crisis Response Team.
The mayor's appointment said in a anniversary Thursday night that "we accept abstruse that one of our own ... is a part of those who absent their lives."
TIN NGUYEN, 31
Born in Vietnam, Nguyen was 8 if her ancestors larboard that country for the United States. Afterwards accessory Cal State Fullerton, Nguyen formed as a aliment ambassador with the canton bloom department.
On Thursday, some of the baby businesses that she inspected acquaint condolences about Nguyen.
"It was such a amusement to accept her as our Inspector," wrote Darla's Cake Design. "Many aliment accessories are afraid if the Bloom Ambassador shows up....but we consistently had a affable acquaintance forth with laughter."
"Her affection was bigger than the sun and her personality was addicting," wrote acquaintance Kim Oanh on Facebook.
She was declared to get affiliated at a Catholic abbey in 2017, her ancestors told media outlets, and had been planning the marriage alongside her mother.
The day afore Nguyen was killed, she acclaimed her fiance's 32nd birthday.
ISAAC AMANIOS, 60
Isaac Amanios, 60, was a authoritative ecology bloom specialist.
NFL amateur Nat Berhe wrote on Twitter that Amanios was a relative.
"My cousin's name is Isaac Amanios and he was a abundant animal being. Thoughts and prayers are with my ancestors aback in CA."
Berhe, who is on the afflicted assets anniversary for the New York Giants, is from San Bernardino. He began tweeting about the cutting if it happened — and again apparent his accessory was a victim.
"Just got chat that one of my cousins was a part of the 14 asleep yesterday, I'm so ailing appropriate now."
The LA Times wrote that Amanios is survived by his wife and three children.
A attestant told the USA Today Network that he was sitting next to Syed Farook, the gunman, at the affair afore Farook left.
HARRY BOWMAN, 46, of Upland.
The lover of the outdoors formed as a statistical analyst for the San Bernardino Canton Administering of Accessible Health, his ancestors said.
He's remembered as a admiring ancestor to his two daughters. The committed affiliate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was aloft in Pennsylvania, frequently accomplished religious classes. He aswell spent abundant of his chargeless time hiking.
"This is a adverse accident for our family, abundant like it is for all families about the apple who accept accomplished this affectionate of violence," the ancestors said in a statement. "There are no words that accurate our anguish in accident such a appropriate person."
JUAN ESPINOZA, 50.
Espinoza, of Highland, was remembered by a above co-worker.
Scott Wyatt met Espinoza about 10 years ago if Wyatt formed in a adolescent cloister abecedary and Espinoza was a corrections officer.
"He was a simple guy, quiet, a accepting who didn't like attention, just admired to do what he had to do," said Wyatt. "This hits abutting to home."
According to media reports, Espinoza was a bloom ambassador with San Bernardino County.
A Mexican federal official said Espinoza was built-in in Mexico and emigrated to the United States added than 20 years ago. Mexican consular admiral contacted Espinoza's ancestors anyhow to action assistance, but the ancestors said none was bare at the moment. The official was not accustomed to be quoted by name.
Associated Press writers Gillian Flaccus in Anaheim, California; Michael Kunzelman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mark Stevenson in Mexico City; and account advisers Rhonda Shafner, Barbara Sambriski and Adriana Mark contributed to this story. Drew appear from Raleigh, North Carolina and Lush from St. Petersburg, Florida.
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